Governor's STEM Advisory Council: Technology-Enhanced Instruction Working Group

Governor Branstad's EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER SEVENTY-FOUR declared that science, technology, engineering and mathematics education should be strengthened as part of providing a world-class education, encouraging innovation and enhancing economic development to focus and promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in Iowa.

Iowa STEM Education Roadmap

Science "Next Generation" standards:
https://docs.google.com/a/spirit-lake.k12.ia.us/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6BS0zTyeir8YWNiMjU4YjUtYmE0NC00MTRjLWJkMGUtOTg1N2ZmMGMwYmQw&hl=en_US

IOWA STEM "Heat Map"

This document identifies existing STEM education projects/program. An important "take-away" is that there is a plethora of activity going on across the State. The question is how are these initiatives shared, connected, coordinated and evaluated? The next step is to evaluate success, connect to business and advance manufacturing, and tell the story. We need to leverage and promote what we have in place.
Thanks to Jeff Weld and his UNI Team for the creation of this map.

Transforming American Education: LEARNING Powered by Technology

This video gives you a "snap shot" of Van Meter Schools and some of our thinking. Van Meter Schools
Thinking from Sir Ken Changing Education Paradigms and his "TED" talk Do schools kill creativity? (His book, "The Element" is a good read too.)
The U.S. Army is committed to systemically changing training (LEARNING) for soldiers by 2015 The U.S. Army Learning Concept for 2015
What is "blended learning?" The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning
Great site for updates Iowa Math and Science Education Partnership
Interesting thinking in reference to class size in teaching science. Class Size and Student Learning

This article by Jeff Borden addresses personalized learning through the use of technology and online learning.
Personalised learning cultures

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NM- Another good resource are the Reflection Papers from the Future of STEM Curricula and Instructional Design: A Blue Sky Workshop

NM- Tool/Resource Iowa already has in place, but needs additional support. Potential of our statewide repository (Equella). __http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrFmvkCXpDs__

NM- The STEM Exchange is being built by NSDL, in collaboration with a range of STEM education partners, as a web service to capture and share social media-generated information and other networked associations about educational resources. http://nsdlnetwork.org/stemexchange

A few great TED videos:
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything


JCC Thanks to Jeff Weld and his UNI Team for the creation of
IOWA STEM "Heat Map"
This document identifies existing STEM education projects/program. An important "take-away" is that there is a plethora of activity going on across the State. The question is how are these initiatives shared, connected, coordinated and evaluated? The next step is to evaluate success, connect to business and advance manufacturing, and tell the story. We need to leverage and promote what we have in place.

JMH-UNI: Outline of Mission and Vision statements with supporting resources. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS GOOGLE DOC

Must watch! Iowa, Did you know?

To move forward we are using this template Managing Complex Change to organize our thought.